1 Year, 11 Months at Google University
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1 Year, 11 Months at Google University
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#3When I used my urban sprall metaphor for the programming environment, I was saying it seems like vast amounts of simple stuff -- not deep, but overwhelming and disheartening -- an unimaginable body of things to learn. Making tall buildings was not really relevant to my metaphor.
Just take visual studio. Look at how complex this has gotten. We, now, have source control checkin-check-out, bug tracker stuff, bunch more wizz-bang shit like this?
Software package install stuff -- necessary, I suppose. In my OS I opt for something more transparent. I fight hard not to obscure things. Install/Uninstall? How about putting Apps in a directory and removing them? Do everything you can -- fight -- so it stays as intuitive as deleting a fucken directory, to uninstall! Now, we gotta go to websites to redownload if you put an App on our computers. In the old days, you could copy the files in the directory onto a back-up and put them in place on a new machine.
This is fucked-up. You cannot copy an application directory to back-up media and copy it to restore it. You cannot delete an application by deleting the directory. Nobody would dare to do it this way, these days.
This is like fighting to get a grade in school. You get an A if you manage to keep your head above water and not sink into managed-code shit. Once you lose that fight, everything is shit.
If you ask me what sprall I am talking about, I don't know -- I haven't explored Studio 2010 to see, but let me make my point -- You've been piling-on new features ever since 1999 VC6? Ten years of 20 programmers churning-out new shit?
The printing-presses have been spewing-out new features into visial studio for ten years. That's what I'm talking about -- urban sprall. This is not the way to do things. The IBM PC will die from bloat, a new machine will spring-up and the cycle is likely to continue until someone sees the light.
You can easily render a guilty verdict by asking, "Linus... how many programmers you got? 1000? What have they been doing for the last ten years? game-over, it's a cess-pool!" I mean urban sprall, Los Angeles, or whatever.
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amazed at his simplicity and at seeing what a hold the absurdities of his master had taken of his fancy, for he had evidently persuaded himself that he was going to be an emperor.
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#4Against such effusive praise, I wonder why someone would leave after such a relatively short stint. (Maybe the next post?)
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#5Against such effusive praise, I wonder why someone would leave after such a relatively short stint. (Maybe the next post?)
Didn't he say that he was pursuing his "dreams of being a startup co-founder"?
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#6"Building Authentic Relationships"? That sounds much better than the Javascript courses :)
Google does sound like an awesome environment, but, much like the post author, I'd like to try my hand at building a company.
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#7Against such effusive praise, I wonder why someone would leave after such a relatively short stint. (Maybe the next post?)
as boshea mentioned, I decided to leave to start my own company. My next post will definitely explain things in a bit more detail, so stay tuned!
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#8Against such effusive praise, I wonder why someone would leave after such a relatively short stint. (Maybe the next post?)
Agreed. Something seems off about this post. Having worked at Google and also having founded multiple startups, I understand the allure of startups. However, I have to say that in my experience, no one leaves a job that they are perfectly happy with in order to found a startup.
The decision to found a startup comes from a deep dissatisfaction with the status quo. Either because there is a problem you are so passionate about solving that you are willing to drop everything, or because you are dissatisfied with your existing work environment, and want to try to create your own.
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#9Against such effusive praise, I wonder why someone would leave after such a relatively short stint. (Maybe the next post?)
Agreed. Something seems off about this post. Having worked at Google and also having founded multiple startups, I understand the allure of startups. However, I have to say that in my experience, no one leaves a job that they are perfectly happy with in order to found a startup. The decision to found a startup comes from a deep dissatisfaction with the status quo. Either because there is a problem you are so passionat…
totally agree dlevine - in my case, life events happened that make me rethink my risk tolerance and ability to go for my dreams (read my prior post for more context)
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#10Against such effusive praise, I wonder why someone would leave after such a relatively short stint. (Maybe the next post?)
Didn't he say that he was pursuing his "dreams of being a startup co-founder"?
Yes, of course that's enough, if the team/market/idea/timing is right.
The praise was just so effusive it sounded like many of the aspects that make being a founder attractive – autonomy, creativity, and impact – were still being well-provided at Google. I'll be interested to see the startup he builds, when it de-cloaks.